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Andrew Griffin / The Independent:
Elon Musk dissolves Twitter's board and makes himself ‘sole director’ — Board had previously been made up of nine directors, including ousted chief executive Parag Agrawal — Twitter To Start Charging $20 a Month for Verification … Elon Musk has dissolved Twitter's board and made himself the “sole director” of the company.
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Bloomberg:
Twitter Limits Content-Enforcement Tools as US Election Looms — Twitter Inc., the social network being overhauled by new owner Elon Musk, has frozen some employee access to internal tools used for content moderation and other policy enforcement, curbing the staff's ability to clamp down on misinformation ahead of a major US election.
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Joshua Green / Washington Post:
Democrats Hate Him, But Elon Musk Might Be Their Savior — Elon Musk took control of Twitter on Friday, adding to the growing misery of Democrats heading into the midterm elections, not least because he's made clear he'll probably allow Donald Trump back onto the platform.
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Rebecca Kern / Politico:
Musk's Twitter: ‘This is exactly what many of us were worried about’ — A day after Elon Musk seemed to confirm critics' worst fears about his ownership of Twitter by tweeting out right-wing misinformation from his personal account, political leaders and operatives wrestled with a loaded question …
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Axios:
Scoop: Musk team working to reboot Vine this year
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Washington Post:
Musk's inner circle worked through weekend to cement Twitter layoff plans
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New York Times:
Republicans Continue to Spread Baseless Claims About Pelosi Attack — Some of the conspiracy theories have already seeped into the Republican mainstream. — Donald Trump Jr., the former president's son, continues to post jokes about it. — Dinesh D'Souza, the creator of a discredited film …
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Adam Wren / Politico:
Prominent conservatives share online disinformation about Paul Pelosi assault — Even as Republican leaders condemn the brutal assault on Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband, other GOP figures are broadcasting a much different message on social media — at turns downplaying, mocking and trading in disinformation about the attack.
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Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:
DA dismisses conspiracies in Pelosi attack, charges expected
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump: Attack on Paul Pelosi a ‘terrible thing’
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Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
Utah 2022: Senator Mike Lee Holds 10-Point Lead Over Evan McMullin — Home Polls Utah 2022: Senator Mike Lee Holds 10-Point Lead Over Evan McMullin — The latest Emerson College Polling survey of Utah voters finds Republican Mike Lee with 49% support in the race for US Senate …
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Final AJC midterm poll: Kemp leads Abrams, deadlocked Senate race
Cassidy Johncox / WDIV-TV:
Poll: Where Michigan voters stand on Whitmer, Dixon 1 week before election
Tabitha Mueller / The Nevada Independent:
Poll: Sisolak, Cortez Masto narrowly lead GOP opponents in days ahead of election
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Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
New Mexico 2022: Lujan Grisham and Ronchetti in Dead Heat for Gubernatorial Election
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The Intercept:
Leaked Documents Outline DHS's Plans to Police Disinformation — The Department of Homeland Security is quietly broadening its efforts to curb speech it considers dangerous, an investigation by The Intercept has found. Years of internal DHS memos, emails, and documents …
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Ben Mathis-Lilley / Slate:
I Watched J.D. Vance Try to Charm Voters in Ohio. I Finally Get Why He's So Angry. — I watched the Hillbilly Elegy author campaign in Ohio. It has not gone according to plan. — A t — a pancake breakfast in the southwest Ohio city of Loveland in late September, I waited through 90 minutes of speeches for J.D. Vance.
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Danny Hakim / New York Times:
Company Backed by J.D. Vance Gives Platform for Russian Propaganda
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U.S. Department of Justice:
Man Charged with Assault and Attempted Kidnapping Following Breaking and Entering of Pelosi Residence — A California man was charged today with assault and attempted kidnapping in violation of federal law in connection with the break-in at the residence of Nancy and Paul Pelosi in San Francisco on Friday.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP bracing for Trump indictment soon after Election Day — Republican aides and strategists privately expect Attorney General Merrick Garland to pursue an indictment of former President Trump within 60 to 90 days after Election Day, predicting the window for prosecuting Trump will close once …
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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
GOP 2024 primary set to begin with conference featuring several contenders, but not Trump
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New York Times:
After Defeat, Bolsonaro is Silent, and Brazil Braces for Turmoil — President Jair Bolsonaro has not yet recognized his election defeat after months of warning, without evidence, that opponents would rig the vote. — For months, President Jair Bolsonaro claimed the only way he would lose …
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New York Times:
Judge Blocks a Merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster — The government's case blocked the merger of two of the United States' largest publishers and reflected a more aggressive approach to curbing consolidation. It was closely watched by the publishing industry.
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Emily Oster / The Atlantic:
Let's Declare a Pandemic Amnesty — We need to forgive one another for what we did and said when we were in the dark about COVID. — In April 2020, with nothing else to do, my family took an enormous number of hikes. We all wore cloth masks that I had made myself.
Jessica Huseman / Votebeat Texas:
Two leaders of True the Vote jailed by federal judge for contempt of court — Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips were escorted away after refusing to disclose the name of a mystery man who supposedly helped them investigate election software company Konnech.
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Feds Hit Parler With Search Warrants for Enrique Tarrio and Other Proud Boys, New Court Filings Reveal — A new evidence list in the Proud Boys' seditious conspiracy case suggests a sweeping federal investigation into the far-right group. — A new evidence list in the Proud Boys January 6 trial shows …
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Charles Rabin / Miami Herald:
3 ex-Proud Boys hired as Miami-Dade poll workers. Insurrection indictment costs 1 the job
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Ally Mutnick / Politico:
Democrats rush aid to deep-blue seat in Upstate New York — House Democrats' top super PAC is making a last-minute buy to aid Rep. Joe Morelle, a New York Democrat in a deep-blue seat — the latest sign that the battle for the House is lurching toward the GOP.
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Sam Metz / Associated Press:
Democrats and tech leaders spend big on independent in Utah
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Lloyd Lee / Insider:
Ohio GOP congressman's niece was among the 154 people killed in a crush of people in South Korea on Halloween weekend — At least 154 people were killed after a crowd surge on Saturday in the Itaewon neighborhood of Seoul. — Most of the victims were in their 20s and 30s, The Associated Press reported.
Zach Schonfeld / The Hill:
Clinton wants Trump to pay her legal fees after tossed conspiracy lawsuit — Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is asking a federal court to order former President Trump to pay her legal fees over a suit he filed alleging she and others engaged in a conspiracy to undermine …
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Andrew Lapin / Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
An evangelical GOP House candidate in Texas wrote a novel about Anne Frank finding Jesus — (JTA) — The Republican nominee for Congress in Texas' 7th district is a self-proclaimed history buff, but his take on Anne Frank is not one that most historians would endorse.
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Republicans have made violence part of their brand — Political violence is not an unintended consequence of the MAGA movement. Much like Nike's swoosh, it is at the center of the movement's brand. — Remember this when considering the intruder who, hyped up on the conspiracy theories Republicans bandy …
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New #Texas polling data just dropped courtesy of e University of Houston. Not good news for Beto. — Pot and gay rights, two of Beto's most vocal policy issues, are the two least important issues to Texas voters. — Remember: these polls never overestimate the popularity of Republicans.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Candidate for Fayette Pa. House seat assaulted amid warnings about election-related threats and violence — A candidate running for a state House seat called 911 Monday morning after being assaulted at his Fayette County home in what would be the third time in two weeks he has had to call police to his residence.
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Washington Post:
Justice Dept. says ballot drop box monitoring in Ariz. is likely illegal — Intimidation, threats and coercion violate federal Voting Rights Act, the department wrote in a brief filed Monday — PHOENIX — The Justice Department stepped in to an ongoing Arizona election lawsuit Monday …
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Max Tani / Semafor:
ProPublica scrambles to check translation in COVID origin story — In the days after ProPublica published a searing expose based on a close reading of Communist Party memoranda in Mandarin, it called in at least two translators, according to three people familiar with the exchanges.
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